Amazon Web Services reviews

They work you to the bone. Overtime creeps up and suddenly it is part of the norm. Doing 16+ hour days were common. Work load was imbalanced compared to other team mates on other teams. The biggest downfall is the constant churn. That is through their stupid pay structure where you make less each year but supposedly gain additional stock. The first 4 years are laid out when you receive an offer and most leave at the steep drop-off at the end of year 2. On top of this we saw a lot of favoritism. The lowest 12% could be eliminated in a Performance Improvement Plan. I saw others go through this process and no matter how good their review or contributions, it became a game of favorites. You could be "voted off the island" and they were offered money to leave or if they failed a smaller severance. Also the return too office mandate and the layoffs have killed the diversity that was beginning to grow from remote workers with a lot to offer, Many of those DEI employees were cut.

AWS is a billion dollar startup and it's run like one. Extremely frugal (I was given a used laptop), they build their own tools since they won't use any 3rd party, and there's a major organization restructuring every 4-6 months (often for no good reason). They will hire very smart people who are attracted to the AWS brand. Then they will have them do entry level work -- literally copying and pasting data. Data entry. All simply because they refuse to invest in any tools they haven't built themselves. Also, if anyone on your team leaves, congratulations. You now have two jobs, and no pay raise.